Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, if you notice, most of the frequent posters on LUG are actually shooters and post quite a bit. Even the ones arguing how many angels can dance on the Leica red dot. And occasionally we may have a collector or two, but you know, live and let live. I think you are criticising some other forums :-) On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Unfortuanly people see the thread title and think that medium format film > production could all of a sudden somehow be in danger when all it is > generalized eBayitus. > We need to get our eyes off the eBay screen and on our own photographic > work. Is the volume of film cameras traded back and forth on eBay higher or > lower now with almost no work being done with them and they are reduced to > collectors pieces? I could care less. If it was I'm sure medium format > which > represents a very small percentage of that would be very very low as well. > For every 100,000 35mm cameras made a MF camera was made. If that. > The amount of serious photography nowadays done with film is way smaller > than any of those historic percentages. And amounts to nothing of any > consequence. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > > > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:12:31 -0800 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? > > > > I'm noticing a lot of Mamiya 6 and &/7II have been come onto the market > in > > the last few weeks. Usually there's one or two being advertised about > once > > every month, but now it seems that one every few days. > > > > My guess is that the lure of the digital and the improvement in quality > is > > finally convincing people to let them go... > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>